Kris Drever and Eamonn Coyne
Date/Time
Date(s) - 15 Mar 2012
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location
Tyneside Irish Centre
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Kris Drever and Eamonn Coyne - 15th March 2012
8.00pm
Éamonn Coyne is a tenor banjo player from Ireland who plays traditional music of various countries such as Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Cape Breton, and America among others. He also plays mandolin, guitar, tenor guitar and national steel tenor guitar on his solo CD ‘Through the Round Window’. And also released a CD with Kris Drever called ‘Honk Toot Suite’.
Kris Drever has increasingly been attracting plaudits for his singing as well as his playing, with his warm, soulfully resonant vocals featuring in five of the thirteen tracks on Fine Friday’s debut album. His choice of songs ranges from the traditional Cold Blow and the Rainy Night to Steve Tilston’s Slip-Jigs and Reels; from Boo Hewerdine’s Hummingbird to the classic Scots ballad The Selkie. I like either to do songs that haven’t been covered much before, he says, or folky standards that are open to a different interpretation. I try to steer clear of that kind of typical folk-singer sound, and put my own mark on things. Kris also plays with The Kate Rusby Band and Session A9 and in 2005 joined forces with Aidan O’Rourke and Martin Green to form the trio LAU.
£12/£10 Concessions
